It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFreeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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